Originally Posted by
BalloonBuster
Well AndyBrown, HK labour law might say so, but no such thing exists in OZ, US, Canada or Europe.
Contracts on bases are enforceable and will be followed.
A few years ago DFO RH, GMA PH and GMA/DFO AT started messing around with contracts on bases, ask them how that went....
So yes, in HK things might go a little bit different in the coming weeks from what most are expecting, however bases won't be messed around with.
That would actually increase overal cost dramatically so there is no way to justify that by senior management.
This.
And the ONE thing that is clear in some of those contracts is the required layoff/recall provisions. And--for better or worse--things that happen in HKG can adversely affect those contracts even if the people are currently in another jurisdiction. So to be constructive it's best to figure something that can be worked within those constraints.
The only thing that I can think of is an attractive and voluntary scheme to avoid axing from the bottom up to the extent it can be avoided.